Towards a general application programming interface (API) for injection molding machines.

ABSTRACT: Injection molding is a complicated process, and the final part quality depends on many machine and process parameters settings. To increase controllability of the injection molding process, acquisition of the process data is necessary. This paper describes the architecture and development of a prototype of an open application programming interface (API) for injection molding machines (IMMs), which has the potential to be used with different IMMs to log and set the necessary process parameter values. At the moment, the API includes an implementation of EMI data exchange protocol and can be used with ENGEL IMMs with CC300 and RC300 controllers. Data collection of up to 97 machine and process parameters (the number might vary depending on the type of machine at hand), obtained from sensors in

SUBMITTER: Ogorodnyk O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7924464 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature